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Turkey - AGRICULTURE

 


Agriculture

Turkish agriculture pursues its modernization. It employs 45.8 % of the agricultural population and accounts for 15% of the GDP. These figures show the impoverishment of this social class.
The intensification of fights against the Kurds in 1994 led to the decline of wheat and beet productions. Today, the grain crops are still insufficient to cover the needs. An important agricultural project for the beginning of the next century should produce big changes in the Turkish agricultural production.

Farmland surface area:

The areas under cultivation include arable lands and those with permanent crops. In Turkey they represent 26 968 000 hectares.

Number of farms:

4 068 432.

Crops

Crop
Yield (in Metric Tons)
Surface (in hectares)

Yield Hg/ Ha*
Wheat  
18 000 000  
8 650 000  
20 809  

* hectograms/hectares

Livestock

Species
Headcount
Ovine races  
30 238 000  
Cattle  
11 185 000  

Number of tractors:

875 000.

Irrigated land (surface area):

4 200 000 hectares.

 

Fishing



Yield in metric tons

Shellfish, mollusks and cephalopods
Saltwater fish
27 785 Tm.
417 960 Tm.

Aquacultural yield in metric tons:

652 193 Tm.

 

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